天下制覇

Okay? Who am I to argue with JC Staff’s translation of the title?

Impressions:

The first half was unabashed introduction, right down to the narrator just going over every single character… and there are a buttload. The narrator in general I could definitely do without. The "Ookami-san has no breasts…" followed by "Ookami-san still has no breasts…" followed by "Ookami-san… NO BREASTS" was old before it was used even once. Her pointing out half the jokes or gags as they’re told was also… unpleasant. Subtlety is a virtue. It worked well when JCStaff used the same trick in Potemayo because so much of the show was purely visual. Here though, they’re just ruining jokes by explaining them. All the accents in this show also irritate me, but Hickboy in particular. SPEAK LIKE A MAN. That may or may not be a personal hangup at this point where I begin to twitch wildly whenever I hear Osakan or de gozaru.

The second half and its Cinderella myth was a lot better than the first since the narrator actually shut up for periods of time and let the characters do things. It’s about as well-animated as you’d expect from JC Staff. The action was unexpected, but competent… but there are plenty of places where it’s clear that they cut corners on animating other things. The characters could use a little more depth too. Hick is a simpering idiot with enough balls to confess his love, and then whine the rest of the episode. Ryoko is angry. Applehead has an apple for a head.

It was a decent first episode, but nothing that really blew me away. The music was nice, the Cinderella kicking joke at the end was funny, but the first half was the epitome of a clumsy and awkward introduction. Once that was out of the way, it seemed like a nice and decent little show. Since it airs in its own little time bloc all to itself, my attention is its to lose. Although Ryoko could really stand to ditch those cat gloves…

No OP this week, just the ED. I’ll rip that when I get the chance… which YouTube is automatically blocking the audio for… OKAY, to Megavideo it is. *shrug*